The Glory of God and the Fall

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 20, No. 6 ( June 2025) The Downward Spiral The glory of God was at issue in the fall of man. In Romans 1 Paul explains the fall of Adam and Eve into sin: For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give thanks to him (Romans 1:21a) Instead of taking their proper place in subjection to their Creator, Adam and Eve

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Jesus Ascended

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 20, No. 5 ( May 2025) “The dust of the earth is on the throne of theMajesty on high.” (John Duncan) “Complementing the Incarnation in which the eternal God himself condescends to be one with us in our hurt and creaturely disintegration in order to redeem us from all evil and re-create us from within the ontological depths of our existence, and complementing the Passion and Resurrection

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Eastertide

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 20, No. 4 ( April 2025) Easter is not a day—it’s a season! The Great Fifty Days “Easter” is the period of eight Sundays [until Pentecost], comprising fifty days, often called as a unit “the Great Fifty Days.” For the explosive force of the resurrection of the Lord is too vast to be contained within a celebration of one day.   The recovery of Easter as “the

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Worship Leader?

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 20, No. 3 ( March 2025) An Astounding Truth Jesus Christ, Paul tells us in Colossians 3:11, “is all, and in all.” And that extends to our worship. Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have

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